| A | B |
| Showed cork cells to Academy | Robert Hooke |
| Two or more lenses | Compound Microscope |
| 1,500X | Maximum magnification of light microscope |
| Ability to see details | Resolution |
| Magnification | Ability to make things appear larger |
| Eyepiece | Ocular |
| Made best simple microscope | Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
| Only one lense present | Simple microscope |
| 60,000X | Maximum magnification of SEM |
| SEM | Allows a 3-D image of specimen |
| Scanning electron microscope | SEM |
| STM | Top magnification of 100 million times |
| Scanning Tunneling Microscope | STM |
| TEM | Transmission Electron Microscope |
| Top magnification of 200,000X | TEM |
| van Leeuwenhoek | First to see bacteria and red blood cells |
| Compound microscope | Uses ordinary light |
| Biconvex lense | Lense which would magnify |
| Arm | Used to carry the microscope |
| Nosepiece | Used to change the power of the scope |